My essays and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The Paris Review Daily,The Collagist, and elsewhere, and my opinions in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Millions, LA Review of Books, and The New York Times. I hold M.F.A. degrees in fiction and nonfiction, from Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa, respectively, and have received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Willapa Bay AiR, and the I-Park Foundation, among others. I was the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College and the Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa.